A/N: Got sooooo behind on the 30 days thing. And I believe a month has already passed…
Rated: T for violence? I guess
Day 20 - Tremble
Screaming.
It fills his ears, the sound ripping at his heart as he's transported to a time little more than ten years ago. When he opens his eyes he doesn't see Korra and Mako thrashing around on the ground, wracked with convulsions as electricity crackles along their bodies. He's back in that alley, hiding behind a crate as lightning explodes in his eyes. Back to that dark night when his whole world was turned inside out. The night he lost everything.
He's on knees and elbows, cupping his ears to drown out the screams. His throat grows raw and he hardly realizes that his own scream has mixed in with the agonized cries of the two most important people in his life. There's nothing he can do to help them.
He feels like he's going to be sick and chokes back the bile in his throat as the charred remains of beloved parents flicker across his memory.
He's gone years allowing Mako to remember that night alone.
Shakily, he rises to his feet, fingers straining in white-knuckled fists, no longer the helpless six-year-old he was the night that firebender stripped him of a family.
He'll be damned if he lets it happen again.